How is Life? Designing for Our Earth reframes architecture not as monument-making but as a practice of genuine care — for people, for cities, and for a planet under pressure from climate change, inequality, and shifting global dynamics.
About This Book
The prosperity-through-growth model has run its course, and architecture is overdue a reckoning with what it actually does for human life. How is Life? takes that question seriously, assembling projects that depart from conventional conceptions of architecture and urbanism to explore design as a means of sustaining collective wellbeing. Rather than treating ecological and social crises as constraints, the book positions them as the generative conditions for a new design intelligence. Published by TOTO Publishing, this is a book for practitioners and students who want their work to mean something beyond the building itself — a provocation toward design that serves the everyday, not the exceptional.
Key Features
- 364 pages of project documentation, critical essays, and design propositions across architecture and urbanism
- Published by TOTO Publishing, ISBN 9784887064058
What You'll Discover
- How design can pursue prosperity that is not predicated on economic growth — a fundamental reorientation of architectural purpose
- Projects that challenge traditional boundaries between architecture, urban planning, and everyday life
- New frameworks for thinking about climate change, social inequality, and epidemics as design problems rather than external threats
- Fresh perspectives on what it means to live together with the Earth — cohabitation as a design ethic rather than a rhetorical gesture
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 364
- Dimensions: 15 x 21 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9784887064058
- Publisher: TOTO Publishing
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and designers grappling with climate and social responsibility, urban theorists, students of sustainable design, and practitioners seeking a critical alternative to growth-driven models of practice.